![]() I have seen no evidence that this was the lens used in the film. It's a replica by Dennis Gilliam, and identified as such at the show.Ģ) This replica includes a Nikkor 8mm f/5.6 fisheye lens. This is a rather belated comment on this thread, but:ġ) Unfortunately the HAL 9000 faceplate on display at the Kubrick Exhibition is not an original prop. His wife, whom I never met, passed away some years back. Now, when he has an inkling to do it, he sails his expertly renovated wooden sailing canoe, over 100 years old, while living on the coast, photographing the wildlife out in the archipelago, when not fishing mackerel, crab, trout, salmon or tending his garden, or his lovely house. Had a big beard (smaller now), booming voice, knew everything about trains (he spent part of his youth building train engines), and motorbikes, and not so little about birds (more than me). So work, motorbikes, flower-power, my sis, and the Hassy, that was his world for many years. He sold it all to me, for a friendly $100, including the bag and sundries, and switched a Hasselblad - living in the city where they were made those lovely cameras he might have found a way to buy one at a friendly price - and a couple of lenses. But my sister's boyfriend, who after having worked full-time for a year as an electrician, decided he needed to upgrade his camera kit from a West-German Edixa Reflex, with a kit lens, a Japanese wide-angle, a Japanese zoom (really rare in 1968), and a Telemegor 400/5.6. I wasn't allowed to work, as my parents drove to the cottage each weekend, and they would not leave without keeping an eye on me. My best friend as a high-school kid, Robert, worked in the post office during the weekends as a teenager, and could pretty soon afford a camera kit (he might still have it, a Canon it was, he's still into Canons). When we became a couple we had a lot to get rid of, including many of those books, as we then had almost two copies of everyone ever published. The publishing company also produced lots of photobooks, that were cheap if you were a subscriber. My wife and her husband (R.I.P.), who once had his own photo studio, subscribed to the Swedish version of that magazine (Populär Fotografi), and so did I for a while. Those were the days my friend, I thought they never end! It seemed only Men were photographers back then! Nikon was the super star back then! I always lusted for Nikon, but could only afford Yashica and Spiratone! I cannot remember a single one devoted to any other lens maker. They devoted entire articles to Nikkor lenses. ![]() Yes, I remember back when I subscribed to popular photography, back in the early sixties. Once, for a good long time, Nikon was the market leader. Nice to see that Hal had a Nikkor Fish-Eye 7.8/5.6 lens!Īlthough, according to Wikipedia, the original lens was another Nikkor Fish-Eye but a 8/8! Now owned a Peter Jackson!Īlmost Leica-like in it's promotion, Nikon was drool-worthy for me -seeing these ads in magazines!Īnd yet, hardly surprising. Wow! this is amazing stuff, thanks for sharing! Could this be a reddish filter gel attached to the rear element, surviving the trip through 50+ years?! As you will recall the lens in the movie emanated a red/yellow glow within it's elements. I had not noticed this when I took the picture, only when I looked at it on my computer. If you look at the second to last image, you may notice that the very center of the lens elements has a reddish color. I stepped closer to the glass case to see the object in greater detail, and snapped the last picture, which I thought would be of interest to some in this forum. I spent a few minutes looking, in awe of this hand made "prototype" ( as were all of the technical creations for the film ). It was, along with many other artifacts, in a glass case -away from prying hands. Another artist's conception seems to foretell the invention of the laptop computer.īut I was impressed with the HAL 9000 module, which despite some surface damage-has survived the 50+ years since the creation of the film. A movie poster shows workers on a moon base holding something that strongly resembles an Ipad. He had discussed and met with top corporate people to get their insight into how society and technology might be 30 years into the future. We were delighted to learn about all of the planning and research that went into Kubrick's style of direction. The event was a traveling exhibition on the making of Kubrick's most ambitious film : This past Sunday, my wife and I visited the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY.
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